WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s health ministry on Thursday confirmed the country’s first case of the omicron coronavirus variant, detected in a visitor from Lesotho. WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s health ministry on Thursday confirmed the country’s first case of the omicron coronavirus variant, detected in a visitor from Lesotho. Laboratory testing revealed that she had the omicron variant. Poland had not registered any cases of the omicron variant until now, although a Polish teenager who traveled to China this month tested positive for it on arrival there. Since Poland’s first COVID-19 case was confirmed last March almost 3.9 million infection cases have been registered, including almost 90,000 deaths.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 16, 2021 14:42 UTC